Match Day Thread Leicester v Hull City

One stat.
Never in Pl history have a newly promoted side done the double over the league champions. FACT.
And to be honest i cant see it happening. I'd take a draw right now.

I'm torn between Abel and Growshitski. Silva likes 4-3-3 but i think we need Abel playing. If he's sub he needs at least 25-30 not the crappy 10 minutes he got against Burnley.
Then again go classic 4-4-2 with Elmo RM and Clucas LM. With Niasse and Abel up top?

We were the worst type of team for Leicester with us sitting deep, but now under Silva we press higher up the pitch. Just what Leicester like. Could be a nightmare, lets hope the Frog's plan quip works.

The Jak

Elab Ranoccia Maguire Robertson

N'diaye Huddlestone Clucas

Markovic Niasse Hernandez

I'm going 1-1.

 

King Richard III's burial in Leicester Cathedral coincided with Leicester's 7 wins that saved them from relegation.

A team of Buddhist monks are flown in to bless the team before each game, and the spend the match silently meditating, with the main Buddha playing a drum.

Leicester City holds the joint record for the most second-tier title triumphs, having won the First Division six times.

Leicester boasts Britain’s first mainland radio station – BBC Radio Leicester – which first broadcast in 1967.

Leicester is home to the National Space Centre – one of the UK’s leading visitor attractions.

Leicester Market is the biggest covered outdoor market in Europe.

Leicester is also the home of the ‘chisit’ – a nickname given to the people of Leicester, because of the phrase “How much is it?” – which in the Leicester accent sounds like “I’m a chisit!”

.Leicester was the birthplace of the father of the package holiday, In 1841, Thomas Cook organised his first package tour, a trip by train for temperance supporters from Leicester to Loughborough.

Leicester holds the world’s biggest celebration of the Hindu Diwali Festival of Lights outside the Indian sub-continent.

Experts have agreed that Leicester is also the birthplace of modern standard English

The Queen’s Building at De Montfort Uni is the largest naturally ventilated building in Europe

Leicester has more traffic lights than any other city in the UK.

Leicester Square in London is named after Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester.

 

Interesting stats, cheers

 

I read the other day that Silva thinks Monday was just a reaction to criticism and didn't have anything to do with a change in tactics because he said Shakey only had two days to change anything. With this in mind he doesn't intend to change his game plan.

What he blatantly doesn't realise is we did change tactics, back to what won us the league. This season Ranieri tried to evolve our style into something the players can't play. We didn't press high up the pitch but we pushed up and because we didn't press we left loads of gaps and we've been badly exposed because of it.

That won't happen tomorrow. Our game is built on high energy and intensity, high pressing, forcing mistakes, winning second balls but also remaining in shape when we don't have the ball.

People assume incorrectly that we're only dangerous when there's space in behind but that's bollocks too. We only scored six goals last season from long balls over the top. The rest were largely from passing and moving around teams who sat back. We were supposed to have been sussed out around Feb last year but nobody could stop us. As long as we play the way we did last season, which we will, Hull could be in for a very unexpected game.

 

Your name is going to be out of date very soon.

 

Against Liverpool you played more high and long balls than I can remember seeing from any team in recent times. Awful to watch.

 

What about Walkers crisps?

 

Dont like it but think theyll get a comprehensive win

 

Away in Melbourne for work, anyone know bars that might be showing the Leicester game tonight?

 

Crown Casino Sports Bar in Southbank will definitely be showing it live. Kick-off 0200hrs. Enjoy!

 

Yeah that's because they gave us the space but we can go either way. We can play three passes from defence and it's in the back of the net. The speed in which we move the ball forward and the pace in our counter attacks are what we're renowned for.

The long ball is used when the option is there otherwise it will be quick incisive passes forward. We rarely go sideways or backwards, which is also why our passing stats are lower, we try to play killer balls and eight times out of ten they'll get cut out but the other two will end with goals.

If you leave us that much space you'll be in a world of trouble.

 

It is but I'll just add (we know what we were) on the end of it

 

We won't. That's not Silva's style.

Not sure which way it'll go, but I think we're in for a cracker.

 

Yeah honestly I have no idea what to expect from you. I'd have imagined you'd stick everyone behind the ball but the op says you like to push up the pitch and Silva says he won't be changing his plan against us because he just thinks Monday was a reaction. It wasn't. It's very naive of him to think like that because that's how we won the league and smashed City and Liverpool. You're going to have to match our energy and intensity and don't leave any space behind. I'm almost absolutely certain you will see a Champions performance today, not the **** you saw at the KC. The crowd and the players are going to be well up for this and I do think it's going to be a great game.

 

We're fighting for the football family today.

Everyone now wants to see these ****s fail and be relegated. The way the club, the players and the fickle fans have reacted to their greatest ever managers shoddy treatment is frankly disgusting. Standing ovation ffs. ****s.

Silva is too clever for their turncoats in charge, today they'll realise just how **** they really are, how how ****ish they are too.

Regulation 4 nowt to us.

After snuffing that **** Vardy out, Harry's gonna score *that* goal we'll remember for a long time.

You Ull.

 

1 half decent performance after 20 odd crap ones, against a **** Liverpool team does not make you Barcelona. We also beat Liverpool a few weeks ago with our new manager bounce. Reigning champions or not today's game is a relegation battle 6 pointer, I hope not but expect another game like ours last week against Burnley.

 

Every man and his dog will be cheering us on today. Aside from the 50% in Leicester who haven't downed tools and gone back to supporting Man Utd and Liverpool that is.

We'all be heroes, I tell you.

 

I reckon it'll be a massive battle.

We've got MS inspiring us and the Foxes have Shakey (who stopped the 'tinkering' for their game against L'pool)*.

Deffo a relegation six-pointer




* OK - the Reds were crap, but Leicester weren't uber-mensch.

 

Oh shut up talking ****, Ranieri was destroying everything from the inside and he had to go otherwise we would have gone down. He tried to change our style of play away from what we did last season because he thought we had to. That meant we stopped pressing, played higher up the pitch and tried to keep possession. It failed miserably and by playing higher up the pitch and not pressing, we were left well exposed. The back four were all over the place and it was a shambles. The players have been left not knowing what they're supposed to be doing because he continually tinkered and they simply don't have the talent to play a possession based game.

He tried every formation and line up possible except for what worked last season and during the Great Escape, which is all Shakey did on Monday.

Ranieri might have steered us to the title but that doesn't give him a free reign to relegate a club that spent £83m to improve a squad that won the league.

Ranieri was right to be sacked so shut your whinging because you don't have the first idea what you're talking about!